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My Crafty Friends Monday: Seasonal Bells

Posted on November 28, 2016November 22, 2016 by Josee

Last day for the Online Extravaganza!!

Welcome to "My Crafty Friends Monday!"

I hope you enjoyed a great weekend!!

Each Monday, I like to feature different projects that have inspired me and I know they'll inspire you too!

Each project was created by different & amazingly talented stampers- make sure you check out their blogs for more details and to check out their other amazing projects!!

(**Note…don't worry- I've contacted each of these stampers and allowed them to decline if they choose.)

This week's featured stamp set is one of the Seasonal Bells stamp set (142104 wood, 142107 clear mount, French 143127) and coordinates with the Bell Punch (141846) and the Bunch of Banners Framelits Dies (141488 ON SALE-last day today!!).

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you may know how much I LOVE versatile stamp sets! I just love how much value you can get out of a stamp set when you can use it for more than one season or occasion! Seasonal Bells is definitely one of those stamp sets- even though it's available from the Stampin' Up 2016 HOLIDAY catalogue, it's a stamp set that does more than just 'holiday' cards and I found some amazing samples to show you!!

Jaimie Babarczy: blog

Love the colors on this card and it's a great example of how this set is not only for Christmas cards! Love this combined with the Scenic Sayings stamp set.

Amanda Bates: blog

Combined with the Copper Foil Sheets and the sentiment from the All God's Grace stamp set, this stamp set is perfect for a Christening card!

Mary Deatherage: blog

Using traditional Christmas colors and combining Seasonal Bells with the Holly Berry Happiness stamp set/Holly Berry Builder Punch, as well as the sentiment from the Christmas Stockings Thinlits Dies and scribble die cut from Swirly Scribbles Thinlits makes a perfect Christmas card. Love it!!

Cindy Brumbaugh: blog

A great way to showcase how you can design one card and simply change the sentiment for the occasion!

Constance Wirtz: blog seasonal-bells-stampinup-glockenlaeuten-by-constanze-wirtz

Love the golden look of this Christmas card. Gorgeous!

Susan Miller: blog seasonal-bells-by-sue-miller

These watercolored bells look wonderful with a background of Holly Berry Happiness greenery and the gorgeous Holly Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (from the Annual Catalogue). So pretty!

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I hope you've enjoyed this week's "My Crafty Friends Monday" Make sure you visit the talented artist's featured on this post! Thanks for stopping by today!

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Bella and Friends Christmas Card

Posted on November 25, 2016May 3, 2017 by Josee

Hello! Happy Friday!

If you are looking for some great Black Friday deals today, make sure you check out my Stampin' Up! store! We are having a week long Black Friday sale, with 24 hour Flash Sale coming on Cyber Monday too! Make sure to check out the deals while supplies last!

Today's card features the super cute Bella and Friends stamp set. After I created this card, I had been waiting to get a chance to get Bella ready for Christmas and when I saw this I knew I had to make the time! I had a few new supplies to play with so the timing was perfect!

How To Make It:

This card started with a base of Wild Wasabi cardstock.

Then, on Whisper White cardstock I stamped the cute dog from Bella and Friends with the Archival Basic Black ink. I allowed this to dry (or you can speed it up with the Heat Tool). Then, using the Aqua Painters, I used Crumb Cake ink to watercolor the dog's fur and then the Smoky Slate ink to add a little grounding under the dog.

The oval Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies were then used to die cut the stamped dog image.

Then I used the 1/16" Handheld Circle Punch to add a small hole to each side of the dog's neck. I used a needle threader to thread a piece of the Real Red twine from the Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine through each hole so that it could be tied in front of the image. I used the needle threader again to add a Mini Jingle Bells to the twine and tied up. Such a cute collar!!

The Jolly Hat Builder Punch was used to punch some Real Red cardstock and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper to create the Santa hat- the pieces were assembled using Mini Glue Dots and added to the top of Bella's head on the oval die cut using Mini Glue Dots as well.

The sentiment from the Hang Your Stockings stamp set was stamped with Real Red ink on Whisper White cardstock. Then, I used the Classic Label Punch to punch each line out seperately, being careful not to punch the other stamped lines.

Each punched sentiment strip was then adhered to one of the large silver Metallic Foil Doilies.

The Silver Satin Ribbon was trimmed and added to the card front using a strip of Tear & Tape Adhesive to hold it in place. Then the Metallic Foil Doily was adhered on top of that and then the stamped oval ensemble was adhered as shown.

Stamps:

Bella and Friends-141867 wood, 141870 clear-mount; Hang Your Stocking- 142114 photopolymer

Paper:

Wild Wasabi-108641, Whisper White- 100730, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter- 133751, Real Red cardstock- 102482

Ink:

Real Red ink- 126949; Basic Black Archival Ink- 140931, Refill- 140928 ; Crumb Cake- 126975, Smoky Slate ink-131179

Other:

Silver 5/8" Satin Ribbon- 134548, Metallic Foil Doilies- 138392, Stitched Shape Framelits Dies-145372 , Mini Jingle Bells-142002, Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine-141983 , Mini Glue Dots- 103683, Aqua Painters-103954, Jolly Hat Builder Punch- 141847, Classic Label Punch- 141491, 1/16" Handheld Circle Punch-134363

Have a wonderful weekend!

QUICK LINKS:

ONLINE EXTRAVAGANZA! – until November 28th

25% OFF SELECTED STAMPS – Until Nov. 30th

HOLIDAY CATALOGUE – Sept. 1 to Jan. 3

CLEARANCE RACK– Save up to 60%

JO JO POINTS– Earn free stamps with my Jo Jo Points Program

Pretty Pines Hostess or Teacher Gift

Posted on November 24, 2016November 23, 2016 by Josee

Happy Thanksgiving to my U.S friends! Enjoy your day!

I think today's project would be the perfect hostess gift or even a teacher gift for Christmas giving. It uses the Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies as the focal point of the project and a candle of your choice. I had this one lying around, and the wax color determined the color scheme for this project.

How To Make It:

The first thing I did was to measure the candle jar's height and circumference around the jar. Then I cut the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper to fit. The glimmer paper is a 12"x12" sheet so in this case, it was a tad short to cover the whole width around so I left the space there and covered it with the rest of the design. Sometimes you just have to work with what you have. The Glimmer Paper was adhered to the jar using Tear & Tape Adhesive.

Then I cut the Watermelon Wonder cardstock using the largest Lots of Labels Framelits dies and then ran it through the Big Shot again in the Pine Bough Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I used a few pieces of Tear & Tape Adhesive to add the label to the glimmer paper.

Then I wrapped the Watermelon Wonder Striped Ribbon around the jar and the die cut label and tied it with an extra strand of ribbon in the knot.

Then, the pine boughs from the Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies were die cut from Always Artichoke cardstock and the pine cones were die cut from a Gold Foil Sheet and Soft Suede cardstock for the solid pieces.

The pine boughs were adhered to the label using Mini Glue Dots and then the pine cones were assembled with Mini Glue Dots then added to the pine boughs using Stampin' Dimensionals.

I left it for now, but you could add a stamped sentiment on a tag hanging from the ribbon or hanging from the top of the jar.